Parasitoids Collected from Animal Feces in Brazil

摘要

The purpose of the paper is to report the species of dipteran parasitoids in poultry feces on farms,buffalo,and cattle in the field in Brazil.The experiments were carried out from April 2006 to December 2007.The pupae were obtained by the flotation method.They were individually placed in gelatin capsules until the emergency of the adult flies or their parasitoids.The specie more frequent was Spalangia endius Walker(Hymenoptera:Pteromalidae)with 7.2%.Were obtained from bovine feces 628 pupae of dipterous in buffalo feces,3,437 pupae were collected and from chicken feces 2,799 pupae,from which 78,172 and 504 parasitoids emerged,respectively.The most frequent species in bovine,of buffalo and chicken feces were:Gnathopleura quadridentata Wharton(Hymenoptera:Braconidae)with 25.6%,Spalangia drosophilae Ashmead(Hymenoptera:Pteromalidae)with 21.5%and Pachycrepoideus vindemmiae(Rondani,1875)with 46.8%,respectively.